If you use the professional social networking site Linkedin, you may want to limit who can see your contacts to avoid getting cold requests for introductions. The easiest way to do this is from a desktop browser.

If you’ve been using Outlook for your emails on a Mac and you’re switching to a Windows PC, you’ll find that they aren’t cross compatible. The OLM format used by Macs needs to be converted to a PST file format for use on Windows machines.

You’ve just downloaded the latest game or cool new app and are logging in with your Facebook account. But, it seems to be asking for permission to view all sorts of things… Does it really need to access your media storage or your phone calls?

After the recent news about Facebook sharing information, many people are now looking at how to change their information settings. If you want to change who can see the posts or photos you’ve been tagged in, this is relatively straightforward.

Our contacts book is an invaluable resource in our modern lives. All our emails, contact phone numbers and even appointments are kept stored on our smart devices and computers, any loss or damage can be both distressing and costly.

Keeping your contacts private is a simple procedure in Facebook. You will need to login to your account on a desktop browser such as Chrome or Safari. It’s also possible to do the changes from a browser on a mobile device, but changing the settings in the app isn’t possible.

If you use an Android phone then your contacts are automatically saved to Google/Gmail. If you have saved an email address to your Google/Gmail account it will be backed up and should be in your list of ‘Contacts’. Go to the Google Contacts app on either a computer or mobile device to check.

Facebook, LinkedIn and Whatsapp allow you to sync your phone’s address book with their servers to bring your social network contacts in your address book and also to pass them info on your contacts. Now assuming you want to do this, here is some more info on how below.